First time doing stainless steel fretwork on a kit guitar. The nippers that chipped, the one that worked, and the full leveling, crowning and polishing process.

There’s a t-shirt on the Carver Woodworking website right now called The Conduit Tee . It’s got a dungeon workshop, a guitar-playing llama, a hidden skull candle, and wood grain woven into basically everything. It [...]

I build guitars. Not at scale, not as my primary job, but seriously. The four models we make here are named after family members: Zora is a Telecaster-style, Nadia is a Jazzmaster-style, Dario is an [...]

I spent Father’s Day in the shop working on the Nadia build. Nadia is my Jazzmaster-style guitar, named after my daughter, and it is currently at that stage of a build where every task you [...]

I get asked about my setup a lot, so here it is. No sponsorships, and while I do use affiliate links, they never influence what I recommend. Just the tools I actually reach for and [...]